Finality is not the language of politics.
JEAN BAPTISTE COLBERT Let it alone. Let it pass by. [Lat., Laissez faire, laissez passer.]
JEAN BAPTISTE COLBERT The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of fe...
JEAN BAPTISTE COLBERT The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to get the most feathers with the least his...
JEAN BAPTISTE COLBERT It is simply, and solely, the abundance of money within a state [which] makes the difference in its ...
JEAN BAPTISTE COLBERT To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak.
JEAN BAPTISTE MASILLON If he could only see how small a vacancy his death would leave, the proud man would think less of th...
JEAN BAPTISTE LEGOUVE A brother is a friend given by Nature.
JEAN BAPTISTE LEGOUVE Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin ...
JEAN BAPTISTE LACORDAIRE A Republican by principle and devotion, I will, until my death, oppose all Royalists and all enemies...
JEAN BAPTISTE BERNADOTTE I hope with all my heart there will be painting in heaven.
JEAN-BAPTISTE COROT The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.
JEAN BAPTISTE LACORDAIRE The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.
JEAN BAPTISTE LACORDAIRE The feeling of mistrust is always the last which a great mind acquires.
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin...
JEAN BAPTISTE LACORDAIRE Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enter...
JEAN BAPTISTE MONTEGUT Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.
JEAN BAPTISTE ROUSSEAU The old men running the industry just have not got a clue. They've got to come to terms with the...
MARIANNE JEAN-BAPTISTE Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme ...
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE The crime of a mother is a heavy burden. [Fr., Le crime d'une mere est un pesant fardeau.]
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE A friend in need is a friend indeed.
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE No money, no Swiss. [Fr., Point d'argent, point de Suisse.]
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin ...
JEAN BAPTISTE LACORDAIRE I still take my own lunches to work. That way I can control what I'm eating, as opposed to anoth...
MARIANNE JEAN-BAPTISTE Gratitude is the memory of the heart. [Fr., La reconnaissance est la memoire du coeur.]
JEAN BAPTISTE MASSIEU But innocence has nothing to dread. [Fr., Mais l'innocence enfin n'a rien a redouter.]
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE Disagreeable suspicions are usually the fruits of a second marriage. [Lat., Les soupcons importun...
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE All that I know of tomorrow is that Providence will rise before the sun.
JEAN BAPTISTE LACORDAIRE In relations between the rich and the strong, between the rich and the poor, between the master and ...
JEAN BAPTISTE LACORDAIRE There needs to be more film directors of colour. They bandy about the word 'diversity' a lot...
MARIANNE JEAN-BAPTISTE A benefit cited by way of reproach is equivalent to an injury
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE But without money honor is nothing but a malady
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE None love, but they who wish to love
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.
JEAN BAPTISTE LACORDAIRE Innocence also weighs
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak
JEAN BAPTISTE MASILLON It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey.
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE The great age of the earth will appear greater to man when he understands the origin of living organ...
JEAN-BAPTISTE LAMARCK In chemistry, our theories are crutches; to show that they are valid, they must be used to walk... A...
JEAN-BAPTISTE DUMAS The feeling of mistrust is always the last which a great mind acquires
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE The heart that can no longer love passionately, must with fury hate
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE Oh, I have loved him too much to feel no hate for him
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE My only hope lies in my despair.
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE Small crimes always precedes great ones.
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE Often it is fatal to live too long.
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE My son, all my life I have loved this science so deeply that I can now hear my heart beat for joy. JEAN-BAPTISTE BIOT I actually like getting up to blue skies.
MARIANNE JEAN-BAPTISTE I have seen many phases of life; I have moved in imperial circles, I have been a Minister of State; ...
JEAN-BAPTISTE DUMAS Britain is no longer totally a white place where people ride horses, wear long frocks and drink tea....
MARIANNE JEAN-BAPTISTE The envious will die, but envy never. [Fr., Les envieux mourront, mais non jamais l'envie.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine. [Fr., Le veritable Amphitryon Est ...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE The republic of letters. [Fr., La republique des lettres.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws. [Fr...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable ...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE It is Hebrew to me. [Fr., C'est de l'hebreu pour moi.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE The smallest errors are always the best. [Fr., Les plus courtes erreurs sont toujours les meilleur...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE But it is not reason that governs love. [Fr., Mais la raison n'est pas ce qui regle l'amour.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE There are fagots and fagots. [Fr., Il y a fagots et fagots.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE To pull the chestnuts from the fire with the cat's paw.
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE You have wished it so, you have wished it so, George Dandin, you have wished it so. [Fr., Vous l'...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE Too great haste leads us to error. [Fr., Le trop de promptitude a l'erreur nous expose.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE One is easily fooled by that which one loves. [Fr., On est aisement dupe par ce qu'on aime.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding suc...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE What the devil was he doing in this galley? [Fr., Que diable alloit-il faire dans cette galere?]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE I recover my property wherever I find it. [Fr., Je reprends mon bien ou je le trouve.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE Innocence is not accustomed to blush. [Fr., L'innocence a rougir n'est point accoutumee.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE The road is long fro the project to its completion. [Fr., Et le chemin est long du projet a la cho...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly. [Fr., La parfaite ...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book. [Fr., Une louange en ...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged. [Fr., Je ne te quitterai point que je ne t'aie ...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE We made some big 3-pointers and we win games when we shoot the ball well on the perimeter. We did a ...
BRIAN BAPTISTE We made our free throws down the stretch and that was huge. We came out of the gate pretty good to s...
BRIAN BAPTISTE When we score inside, that opens things up on the perimeter and we've been successful when we've bee...
BRIAN BAPTISTE Losing Chris was a tough break and I really didn't know how the team was going to react. It took a l...
BRIAN BAPTISTE We are here to accompany the people in peace. The problem is the United Nations is trying to annihil...
WILLIAM BAPTISTE If you journalists weren't here, the U.N. would be shooting at us. They have destroyed our homes. Ou...
WILLIAM BAPTISTE Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the furthest thing from it. Because cynics don't learn...
STEPHEN COLBERT I not only loved studying theater, I loved being a theater major. It gave me an excuse to brood, to ...
STEPHEN COLBERT Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
CLAUDETTE COLBERT In the media age, everybody was famous for 15 minutes. In the Wikipedia age, everybody can be an exp...
STEPHEN COLBERT If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that...
STEPHEN COLBERT Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy -- the mother.
CLAUDETTE COLBERT Fake news executives are nicer than real news executives, though real news executives are funnier th...
STEPHEN COLBERT When the president decides something on Monday, he still believes it on Wednesday - no matter what h...
STEPHEN COLBERT Isn't an agnostic just an atheist without balls?
STEPHEN COLBERT Northwestern's alumni list is truly impressive. This university has graduated best-selling autho...
STEPHEN COLBERT I don't accept the status quo. I do accept Visa, MasterCard, or American Express.
STEPHEN COLBERT I used to make up stuff in my bio all the time, that I used to be a professional ice-skater and stuf...
STEPHEN COLBERT Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty.
STEPHEN COLBERT It is a well known fact that reality has liberal bias.
STEPHEN COLBERT I started off at the Second City in Chicago... It's an improvisational theater that ostensibly d...
STEPHEN COLBERT I loved George Carlin and Dean Martin. I was one of those kids who had every comedy album.
STEPHEN COLBERT I bet you think an egg is something you casually order for breakfast when you can't think of any...
CLAUDETTE COLBERT I'm a satirist, so I've got boxing gloves on if the person is worthy of satire. But I'm ...
STEPHEN COLBERT Late-night shows are 'Chopped.' Who are your guests tonight? Your guests tonight are veal to...
STEPHEN COLBERT I would say laughter is the best medicine. But it's more than that. It's an entire regime of...
STEPHEN COLBERT When these seniors came here, we were 2-22 and 1-and-something. They helped put Waukegan basketball ...
BRIAN COLBERT We got what we wanted ? winning a regional and a chance to get back home to the Dog Pound for the se...
BRIAN COLBERT I rather have Dana full strength in March than in January. He doesn't want his season to end.
BRIAN COLBERT It was fun watching the big men bang on each other all night. We thought we had a little more experi...
BRIAN COLBERT I thought our defense triggered our offense. We got into a nice flow when we played good defense and...
BRIAN COLBERT Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the ...
STEPHEN COLBERT Use the word 'zeitgeist' as often as possible. Ideally, you want to find words that sound fa...
STEPHEN COLBERT I have a doctorate in fine arts from Knox College in Illinois. All I did was give a speech, and now ...
STEPHEN COLBERT I am highly variable in my devotion. From a doctrinal point of view or a dogmatic point of view or a...
STEPHEN COLBERT I'm very comfortable with uncomfortable situations, and I think that can seem odd to people, tha...
STEPHEN COLBERT Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy - the mother
CLAUDETTE COLBERT I don't want someone shoving his views down my throat, unless they're covered in a crunchy candy she...
STEPHEN COLBERT There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good.
STEPHEN COLBERT Equations are the devil's sentences.
STEPHEN COLBERT We know that polls are just a collection of statistics that reflect what people are thinking in 'rea...
STEPHEN COLBERT When the president decides something on Monday, he still believes it on Wednesday -- no matter what ...
STEPHEN COLBERT I believe that the government that governs best is a government that governs least, and by these sta...
STEPHEN COLBERT My brother Billy was the joke teller. My brother Jim had a really sharp, cutting wit. And the teller...
STEPHEN COLBERT It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's n...
STEPHEN COLBERT I like being boring to a certain extent. I don't have to be flashy. I get to put all of that int...
STEPHEN COLBERT I'm a junkie for exhaustion, and I'm a junkie for setting up my expectations too high and th...
STEPHEN COLBERT I've been accused of being unambitious, but what I do takes up every minute. I'm executive p...
STEPHEN COLBERT He's the master, ... It's admirable. I watch him with my mouth open and think, 'How does he do it?' ...
STEPHEN COLBERT I love being onstage. I love the relationship with the audience. I love the letting go, the sense of...
STEPHEN COLBERT The trouble with the jokes is that once they're written, I know how they're supposed to work...
STEPHEN COLBERT President Bush, have a hot dog with me.
STEPHEN COLBERT The summer movies are coming out. My advice: just stay home and burn a good book.
STEPHEN COLBERT Make no mistake: I love women. I'm married to one, I was birthed by one, and I played one in my ...
STEPHEN COLBERT The talent level continues to rise each and every year.
AL COLBERT To just head off to one tournament, the bill could be as much as $6,000. Travel, hotel and food cost...
AL COLBERT We have a very impressive schedule this year. Last season, I think we managed to sneak up on people,...
AL COLBERT Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn a...
STEPHEN COLBERT Simply being a guest on David Letterman's show has been a highlight of my career. I never dreame...
STEPHEN COLBERT The only thing that I don't like is my kids watching comedy that isn't actually funny. There...
STEPHEN COLBERT I have tender feelings for Nixon because everybody has warm feelings about their childhood. Actually...
STEPHEN COLBERT People are constantly saying, 'How's it feel to have such an impact?' I just want to be funny. I'm a...
STEPHEN COLBERT I know there are some polls out there saying this man has a 32% approval rating. But guys like us, w...
STEPHEN COLBERT In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant, ... One motto on the s...
STEPHEN COLBERT I think O'Reilly could be so evolved, he's one of the X-Men
STEPHEN COLBERT Jon would never talk about Britney's baby, ... But I see it as an example of our Hollywood limousine...
STEPHEN COLBERT My character is not based on (Bill) O'Reilly, ... It's the same guy from The Daily Show. You'd never...
STEPHEN COLBERT They're all cult of personality, ... People don't come there for news. They come there for that guy'...
STEPHEN COLBERT Jon's his own guy, but it's a gig that says a lot about who you are in the comedy community.
STEPHEN COLBERT Here's how it works: the president makes decisions. He's the decider. The press secretary announces ...
STEPHEN COLBERT He had a wonderful interview with Bono during the Republican National Convention in New York. It mad...
STEPHEN COLBERT Bush has a real problem on his hands here, John: What honor should he bestow on Karl Rove?
STEPHEN COLBERT He would be just as apprehensive as I was, before the first film came out. Really, really, really ho...
STEPHEN COLBERT Every day, if I could find someone to play with me. If I couldn't find someone to play with me, I wo...
STEPHEN COLBERT They thought it was warping their children's minds. Which it might have been, but it also took a lot...
STEPHEN COLBERT So you weren't a good student.
STEPHEN COLBERT It's about bluster and personality, ... Daily Show.
STEPHEN COLBERT We're going to deal with truth on my show.
STEPHEN COLBERT knocking up pop stars.
STEPHEN COLBERT I want to thank Comedy Central for picking up the show, but more importantly I want to congratulate ...
STEPHEN COLBERT The money will go to the Red Cross or any other organization people can write checks to.
ANDREW COLBERT Everybody has clothes lying around their house, everybody has some thing to give.
ANDREW COLBERT Even the weather page is in a state of moral decay. What’s wrong with red, white and blue, USA Tod...
STEPHEN COLBERT America used to live by the motto "Father Knows Best." Now we're lucky if "Father Knows He Has Child...
STEPHEN COLBERT The Palm Beach Story
CLAUDETTE COLBERT Men don't get smarter when they grow older. They just lose their hair.
CLAUDETTE COLBERT Here's an easy way to figure out if you're in a cult: If you're wondering whether you're in a cult, ...
STEPHEN COLBERT A father has to be a provider, a teacher, a role model, but most importantly, a distant authority fi...
STEPHEN COLBERT Truthiness is what you want the facts to be as opposed to what the facts are. What feels like the ri...
STEPHEN COLBERT The Colbert Report
STEPHEN COLBERT I had a dream that I went down (to New Orleans) and helped, but since it was the week before school,...
ANDREW COLBERT Men don't get smarter when they grow older. They just lose their hair.
CLAUDETTE COLBERT metaphorical sloppy seconds.
STEPHEN COLBERT It was, actually. I started playing Dungeons & Dragons the first week it was introduced to the marke...
STEPHEN COLBERT We returned from Spring Break healthy this year. We were plagued with multiple injuries very early i...
MALCOLM COLBERT Audiences always sound like they're glad to see me, and I'm damned glad to see them.
CLAUDETTE COLBERT In God's eyes all children are beautiful but here on earth we have higher standards.
STEPHEN COLBERT I have a mug that actually verifies that I'm the world's best dad. That's a mug. That...
STEPHEN COLBERT There's a degree of narcissism involved in anything in show business. I mean, you can't do i...
STEPHEN COLBERT I deliver my Truth hot and hard.
STEPHEN COLBERT If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared t...
STEPHEN COLBERT We decided to take a chance, and it worked out pretty good for us.
KEVIN COLBERT You go into it with a certain plan and you have to adjust as the game unfolds. Personally, I think i...
KEVIN COLBERT It's official. Highway patrolmen are not susceptible to the Jedi Mind Trick.
STEPHEN COLBERT That's my parenting style - 'Go watch the TV.' I'm one of 11 children, and my mother...
STEPHEN COLBERT This kid put up some amazing statistics in productivity at Bowling Green. We still think he has some...
KEVIN COLBERT As we say every year, I don't think anybody ever thinks that they had a bad draft. We are no differe...
KEVIN COLBERT Now we all know that Fidel Castro dressed up like Marilyn Monroe and gave JFK a case of syphilis so ...
STEPHEN COLBERT It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it.
CLAUDETTE COLBERT I bet you think an egg is something you casually order for breakfast when you can't think of anythin...
CLAUDETTE COLBERT I know what's best for me, after all I have been in the Claudette Colbert business longer than anybo...
CLAUDETTE COLBERT Jon always said 'The Daily Show' has no political impact, ... We're going to go ahead and pick up th...
STEPHEN COLBERT It took me years to figure out that you don't fall into a tub of butter, you jump for it.
CLAUDETTE COLBERT [Actress Claudette Colbert appeared in her last film role in] Parrish, ... I'm a mature woman but I ...
CLAUDETTE COLBERT as natural as a gorilla beating his chest.
STEPHEN COLBERT I can't prove it, but I can say it.
STEPHEN COLBERT I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she ...
STEPHEN COLBERT I'm not a fan of facts. You see, facts can change, but my opinion will never change, no matter what ...
STEPHEN COLBERT Lemme just talk to you for a second about something that I think is good for America: caramel apples...
STEPHEN COLBERT [And not a moment too soon, figures Colbert (the gifted humorist-performer, that is not the make-bel...
STEPHEN COLBERT In success, you wouldn't be able to say I'm conservative or liberal. I'm part of the blame-America-l...
STEPHEN COLBERT Don't be afraid to make things up. Never fear being exposed as a fraud. Experts make things up a...
STEPHEN COLBERT Thankfully, dreams can change. If we'd all stuck with our first dream, the world would be overru...
STEPHEN COLBERT I just think Rosa Parks was overrated. Last time I checked, she got famous for breaking the law.
STEPHEN COLBERT The first time I met Jon Stewart was at the press conference that Comedy Central held to announce Jo...
STEPHEN COLBERT Reality has a well-known liberal bias.
STEPHEN COLBERT It took me years to figure out that you don't fall into a tub of butter, you jump for it.
CLAUDETTE COLBERT